Why don’t we use a little foresight and plan something relevant for a few years from now for the Astrodome. Pokemon Go is all the rave right now but people are out getting injured walking the open streets. There’s also complaints of it leading to trespassing on private property. Why don’t we make the inside of the Astrodome a giant safe haven for augmented reality users. Let’s face it, video games are the only thing that can motivate us millennials to exercise. Let’s make it a high tech gaming/exercise park. Talk about putting Houston on the map!!! It would be super cheap too. The infrastructure we’d need to add inside the park would be minimal. I’m sure Nintendo would love to add it to their map. I’m sure the next virtual reality developer could make use of it as well. VR is the future, no question. Let’s cement ourselves as a high tech city rather than continuing to be known as a city entirely based on yesterdays energy source.

I love all these ideas of putting a major attraction on a footprint of land a little larger than a baseball field. I know the dome looks spacious but even Astroworld was constrained by its property boundaries and it was many times larger in acreage than the land inside the dome.